I have to confess that the question about D-Pads on gaming controllers the other day got me thinking about questions that could be asked about other relatively recent technological matters, and it occurred to me that there will someday probably be an official discipline for "Internet History" or something like that. The World Wide Web, at least, has some four years of existence that currently fall outside /r/AskHistorians' date cut-off - but what was going on during that time that might be worth talking about?

This is a really sadly open-ended question, and I know those are discouraged here, but I need to find out more information about this before I can even figure out more precise questions to ask.